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You HAVE to be joking.

He is Caine. He will help you.

No, just because one can, in a pinch, do something, does not make that his focus. I'm trained in first aid, if you come to me bleeding, I can patch you up, but I'd suggest you see a doctor if there's one available. Apparently, we didn't watch the same movie. Let's hope you're wrong, because...

That's because the ranger shouldn't be a class focused on archery. He's a warrior, period. The choice to focus on archery or melee should be the player's and not be dictated by the class mechanics. Don't get me started on the two-weapon fighting shoehorn, grrrr.

Why can't the Guerrilla Fighter/Navy SEAL commando also be in the warrior fold? When I think of that particular archetype, I picture John Rambo.

Anyone who answers "yes" to that question has no idea what a ranger is. A ranger absolutely falls under that banner. Later editions have increasingly forced him into the rogue category, and there's no better time to fix that than now.

IMO

Dungeon Crawl Classics does something like this.

No they don't. There are 3rd level spells, 4th level spells, etc. Casting a fireball as a level 4 spell for 1d6 extra damage is not a useful casting of a 4th level spell slot. If that is scaling, they may as not even scale.

Not in the slightest. For the average gamer, it's probably great, but for someone who's used to installing mods - and there are a ton of them available for BG2, including a high res widescreen mod - I don't think it has much to offer. A few new npcs, and I found the ones in BGEE about as...

You mean like: Range: 10" +1" per level?

Fireball, lightning bolt, magic missile, cone of cold, etc. Pretty much any spell that scaled in previous editions but doesn't in 5E. I guesss the designers looked at 3e and saw how overpowered blasting spells are. :confused:

Not if he's smart. Smoke bombs, invisibility, blink, there are a ton of ways to sneak in combat that make sense. Besides that, after his opening salvo, if he can't come up with a way to sneak, yes, his combat experience will be average at best. But then, other than his opening salvo, combat...

I agree with the first part of your statement here, and disagree with the second. A thief should be able to open combat from stealth and deal a metric ton of damage. After that, he should be able to hold his on in combat, but nowhere near the ability of a ranger/fighter/paladin without...

Sneak attack is fine, as long as it, you know, requires SNEAKING.

Sometimes when a child is learning to speak, he will point at a cow and say "dog." Now, you can pat him on the head and call him a good boy, and he'll be calling cows dogs when he's 40, or you can call him out on it and teach him what a cow is. But no matter how many children call a cow a dog...

Nevermind. Old news.

A bard shouldn't even have arcane spells.

First Edition.

The word ranger has nothing to do with ranged attacks. While there's nothing wrong with a ranger choosing to focus on archery, he, nor any other class, should be forced, nor even encouraged to do so, unless there is an archer class that I'm not aware of.